The Merton Annual Volume 28 – Celebrating the Questions (and Answers)

Editors: David Joseph Belcastro, Joseph Quinn Raab

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“Volume 28 of The Merton Annual returns us to the Centenary celebration of Volume 27 because many of the articles included in it are developed from concurrent session papers and plenary addresses originally presented there. But it also contains a word from Merton himself, and even one from Pope Francis. The Call for Papers for the 2015 conference, which I’ve alluded to in my introductory remarks, gestured toward the marriage of mysticism and prophecy and asked contributors to set aside easy answers and to grapple again with difficult questions. Not surprisingly then, the articles here disturb and delight; they shake us out of what Merton would call our “half-tied vision of things,” propelling our quest and stirring us into hopeful action.” Click here to read the full introduction by Joseph Quinn Raab.

The Merton Annual publishes articles about Thomas Merton and about related matters of major concern to his life and work. Its purpose is to enhance Merton’s reputation as a writer and monk, to continue to develop his message for our times, and to provide a regular outlet for substantial Merton-related scholarship. The Merton Annual includes as regular features, reviews, review-essays, a bibliographic survey, interviews, and first appearances of unpublished or obscurely published Merton materials, photographs and art. Essays about related literary and spiritual matters are also considered.

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Categories: General Thomas Merton Books, The Merton Annual, Thomas Merton Series

ISBN: 9781891785917
Year: 2015
Pages: 292

Fons Vitae Publishing

The Merton Annual Volume 28 – Celebrating the Questions (and Answers)

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The Merton Annual Volume 28 – Celebrating the Questions (and Answers)

CONTENTS

Raab, Joseph Quinn. “Introduction: Celebrating the Questions (and Answers).” 7-15.

Pope Francis. “Address of the Holy Father to a Joint Session of the United States Congress – September 24, 2015.” 16-23.

Merton, Thomas. “Application for Conscientious Objector Status – March 1941” introduction by Jim Forest. 24-29.

Cronin, James G. R. “A Nation under Judgment: Thomas Merton, Frank Kowalski and the Congressional Peace Prayer.” 30-39.

Williams, Rowan. “Words, War and Silence: Thomas Merton for the Twenty-First Century.” 40-53.

Bochen, Christine M. “Striving for Mercy: Envisioning the Church of the Twenty-First Century.” 54-70.

Pramuk, Christopher. “God Accompanies Persons: Thomas Merton and Pope Francis on Gender and Sexual Diversity.” 71-87.

Gardner, Fiona. “Unlocking the Door from the Inside.” 88-96.

Grayston, Donald. “Consonantia in Thomas Merton: Harmony Personal, Social and Cosmic.” 97-111.

O’Connell, Patrick F. “‘A Way of Life Impregnated with Truth’: Did Thomas Merton Undervalue Confucianism?” 112-133.

Bubel, Katharine. “‘The Terrible, the Merciful, the Mothers’: Tracing Wisdom in Merton’s Hagia Sophia and Malick’s The Tree of Life.” 134-148.

Oyer, Gordon. “Confronting the Myth of Human Progress: Thomas Merton and the Illusion of Privilege.” 149-158.

Scruggs, Ryan. “Contemplation and the Cogito: Thomas Merton on the Philosophical Roots of Modern Alienation.” 159-180.

Finley, James. “Thomas Merton: Mystic Teacher for Our Age.” 181-195.

Belcastro, David Joseph. “Thomas Merton’s Conversatio Morum 2014 Bibliographic Review Essay.” 196-214.

Apel, William. Review Symposium of Pursuing the Spiritual Roots of Protest: Merton, Berrigan, Yoder, and Muste at the Gethsemani Abbey Peacemakers Retreat by Gordon Oyer. 215-221.

Belcastro, Deborah. Review Symposium of Pursuing the Spiritual Roots of Protest: Merton, Berrigan, Yoder, and Muste at the Gethsemani Abbey Peacemakers Retreat by Gordon Oyer. 221-224.

Dekar, Paul R. Review Symposium of Pursuing the Spiritual Roots of Protest: Merton, Berrigan, Yoder, and Muste at the Gethsemani Abbey Peacemakers Retreat by Gordon Oyer. 224-228.

Schnapp, Patricia, RSM. Review Symposium of Pursuing the Spiritual Roots of Protest: Merton, Berrigan, Yoder, and Muste at the Gethsemani Abbey Peacemakers Retreat by Gordon Oyer. 228-233.

Oyer, Gordon. Author Response to Review Symposium of Pursuing the Spiritual Roots of Protest: Merton, Berrigan, Yoder, and Muste at the Gethsemani Abbey Peacemakers Retreat by Gordon Oyer. 233-238.

Lipsey, Roger. Rev. of The Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer: Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, edited by F. Douglas Scutchfield and Paul Evans Holbrook Jr. and The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton, edited by Patrick Samway, SJ. 239-240.

O’Connell, Patrick F. Rev. of Medieval Monastic Movements; An Introduction to the Cistercian Order; Thomas Merton and St. Bernard of Clairvaux; St. Thomas Aquinas and “The Ways of God”; Thomas Merton on Contemplation [revised]; Thomas Merton on Sufism [revised] by Thomas Merton (CDs). 240-247.

Montaldo, Jonathan. Rev. of The Franciscan Heart of Thomas Merton by Daniel P. Horan, OFM. 247-250.

Matthews, Gray. Rev. of Illusions of Freedom: Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on Technology and the Human Condition by Jeffrey M. Shaw. 251-254.

Stuart, Angus. Rev. of Thinking through Thomas Merton: Contemplation for Contemporary Times by Robert Inchausti. 255-256.

Ratigan, Virginia Kaib. Rev. of Thomas Merton: Faithful Visionary by Michael W. Higgins. 257-258.

Bochen, Christine M. Rev. of The Ground of Love and Truth: Reflections on Thomas Merton’s Relationship with the Woman Known as “M” by Suzanne Zuercher, OSB. 259-263.

Weis, Monica, SSJ. Rev. of The Spiritual Genius of Thomas Merton by Anthony T. Padovano. 264-266.

Giraldo, Jeff. Rev. of Merton/Meatyard – Meatyard/Merton: Photographing Thomas Merton. 267-269.

Szabo, Lynn. Rev. of Universal Vision: A Centenary Celebration of Thomas Merton edited by Fiona Gardner, Keith Griffin and Peter Ellis. 270-273.

Hall, Gary. Rev. of Prophet and Mystic of Creation: On Retreat with Thomas Merton by Kathleen Deignan, CND (DVDs/CDs). 274-276.

Thurston, Bonnie. Rev. of The Seven Storey Mountain and the Rest of the Story by Michael W. Higgins (DVDs/CDs). 277-278.

Grateful acknowledgement is expressed to the Merton Legacy Trust and the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University for permission to reproduce the calligraphy of Thomas Merton for the cover artwork.

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